Reel and support



(No Model.)

G. S. LORD.

REEL AND SUPPORT.

Patented Marlv Z3, 1897.

Nirn `rares CHARLES S. LORD, OF lVINOOSKl, VERMONT.

REEL AND SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 579,488, dated March 23, 1897. Application iiled April l, 1896. Serial No. 585,703. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, .CHARLES S. LORD, of lVinooski, county of Chittenden, State of Vermont, have invented an Improvement in Reels and Their S upports, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyin g drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel reel for holding skeins of yarn in machines for winding the same on spools.

In my invention a series of metallic arms are pivoted on a disk or spider having restrained rotation on a stud, and said arms each have at their inner ends and between their fulcra and the stud a pin which enters each, a separate spiral slot in a plate which may be rotated more or less on said stud at the side of the said disk or spider, the spiral slots acting on the pins of the arms to simultaneously turn the latter on their fulcra to enlarge or contract the effective diameter of the reel, and a nut screwed upon the threaded hub of the disk or spider and acting against the slotted plate holding the same in any position in which it may be left.

I have mounted the stud supporting the reel on an arm pivot-ed on a foot-casting adapted to be secured to a rail of the spooling-machine, the said arm having combined with it means for holding it in proper Working position, yet permit it to be thrown or drawn down away from adjacent reels when the yarn of that reel may need attention.

Figure l, in side elevation, represents a reel embodying my invention mounted on a rail of a spooling-machine Fig. 2, an enlarged detail showing the slotted plate, disk or spider and parts of the arms pivoted thereon, and the locking-nut; Fig. 3, a section of Fig. 2 on the line fr oo. Fig. 4 shows one of the reelarms enlarged; and Fig. 5 is a section in the line x o0', Fig. l.

The rail A, commonly extended from one to the other end of a spooling-machine, has attached to it by a suitable bolt a a footplate B, having a heel B to fit the back A of the rail.

The bolt enters a web of the foot-plate and also an ear of a stationary washer a2, an upright Iiange of the foot-piece (see Fig. 5) holding a bolt or stud a3, one end of which is passed through the said washer, where it has applied to it a nut a4.

The bolt is surrounded bya friction device or washer a5, and the bolt serves as a fulcrum for the reel-carrying arm Z), the setting up of the nut causing the arm to beheld with a measured friction, which may be enough to hold the arm in any position in which it may be left, either up or down, as in full or dotted lines, Fig. l. I also prefer to and have provided the arm b with a pin b,which is adapted to be engaged by a latch b2, pivoted at b3 on the washer a2.

Vihen the latch engages the pin, as in full lines, Fig. l, the arm is locked in its elevated position, but when the latch is disengaged from the pin the arm may be turned down more or less to lower the reel mounted on it. The upper end of the arm b has screwed into it the threaded end of a bolt c. The bolt enters the hub of a disk or spider c', and a friction-washer c2, and a spiral spring c3, and is screwed into the disk, the threaded end of the bolt receiving a set-nut c4 to lock the bolt in place.

The bolt may be screwed into the arm b to compress the spring c3 more or less and cause it to act on the washer to make the latter exert more or less of a restraint on the hub of the disk and restrain it from rotating except after a predetermined amount of strain on the yarn. The spring and washer thus act as a tension device for the reel.

The disk has pivoted upon it at cl a series of arms d', having at their inner ends each a like pin cl2, which enters one of a series of spiral slots d3 in a plate d4, mounted on the eX- tended hub of the disk c, the said hub being threaded and receivinga locking-nut d5,which may be made to lock or unlock the plate, the latter when unlocked being free to be moved on the hub in one or the other direction to cause the arm to assume. a more or less radial position with relation to the Idisk which constitutes the hub of the reel, such movement of the plate expanding orcontracting the reel. The reel-arms d have combined with them extension-arms e', suitably connected thereto and provided at their outer ends with skein- IOO holders e2. A series of these arms d e and skein-holders c2 make up the reel.

I have shown the rear ends of the arms e' as provided with a T-piece eX and so bent'as to enter the slots c in the arms d', and the armsve' are shown as slotted at e4 to receive a screw e5, inserted in the arms d2 The arms may be leugthened and shortened at will by loosening the screws e5, and all of them may be simultaneously inclined more or less quickly to take off a skein or to adapt the arms to the size of the skein being applied. The arlns e', near their outer ends, have given to them a quarter-twist, as at f, so as to turn to the proper angle the skein-holders.

The disk d4 has ears or thumb-pieces l0, Which may be engaged easily when the disk is to be turned to enlarge or con tract the skeinholding arms.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Let-ters Patent, is-

l. A series of arms having at one end skeinholders e2, and at their other ends pins cl2, the disk or spider having an elongated hub on which said arms are pivoted at d between their ends, and the plate having a series of spiral slots to receive said end pins d2, said plate being mounted on the hub of said disk or spider,

ating With said disk to restrain its rotation more or less as required, substantially as described.

2. The series of longitudinally-adjustable arms having at one end skein-holders e2, and at their other ends pins d2, the disk or spider having an elongated Ahub on which said arms are pivoted at CZ between their ends, and the plate having a series of spiral slots to receive said end pins d2, said plate being mounted on the hub of said disk or spider, combined With a lookin g device on said hub to cooperate With said plate, the partial rotation of the plate when unlocked enablingall the arms to be adjusted simultaneously, the locking of the plate locking all the arms in position; a stud on Which said disk is mounted, and an adjustable restraining device cooperating with said disk to restrain its rotation more or less as required, substantially as described.

3. The foot B, having an upright provided with a bolt, and a reel-carrying arm mounted onsaid bolt, a friction-Washer arranged at one side of said arm, and an adjustable Washer arranged at its other side to act as a clamp, combined With means to restrain the rotation of the said adjustable Washer whereby said arm may be held in any position in which it may be left, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES S. LORD.

Vtlitn esses:

L. W. BALLoU,

mo. B. LITTLE. 

